Dr. Hurvitz is Director, Breast Cancer Clinical Research Programs at the Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and an Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She is also the Co-director of the Santa Monica-UCLA Outpatient Hematology/Oncology Practice and Medical Director of the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Clinical Research Unit. Dr. Hurvitz is interested in designing and implementing phase I and II (translational) breast cancer clinical trials. Dr. Hurvitz is also interested in studying the gene expression patterns in a variety of breast cancer populations, and evaluating these patterns to detect new subtypes of breast cancer that may be more accurately targeted by novel therapies.